Tyrone, a central county of Ulster, Ireland; is hilly, picturesque, and fertile in the lower districts; a considerable portion is taken up by barren mountain slopes and bogland, and agriculture is backward; coal and marble are wrought; Omagh is the capital, and Strabane and Dungannon are prosperous towns.
Population (circa 1900) given as 171,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tyrol * Tyrone, Hugh O'Neil, Earl of